Word: coax
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...subject I ever worked with." Ward rode alone with the President to the hospital to have lunch with Betty Ford after her cancer operation. Ward was there when Mrs. Ford said goodbye to her son Steve following her mastectomy. He was present at Camp David when Ford decided to coax Liberty, his golden retriever, into the pool. Shooting rapidly, and somehow managing to keep dry, Ward recorded a slapstick sequence as Betty Ford pushed her husband into the water, then Press Secretary Ronald Nessen and Nancy Howe, Mrs. Ford's personal secretary, dunked each other. And in a Truffautesque...
...Greif began by inviting communication. He wanted comments about a slide of a woman holding a baby and began trying to coax comments in a way that no grade school child I know would have tolerated. He also made insulting comments, subtle though they were, to those who obligingly responded to his seemingly meaningless request. At last he let us know how really stupid we were when he pointed out that we hadn't noticed that we couldn't see one of the baby's hands, and that, having actually been to Portugal, and seen the baby and grandmother...
Dilworth, an investment banker whose uncle was former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, explained that it had not been easy to coax financial details out of the family. "Some felt that this was a terrible invasion of privacy," he said. "Others shrugged their shoulders and figured that something had got started that couldn't be stopped." In the end, Dilworth managed to reach all the family members with the exception of a niece, Eileen Rockefeller, who is "working on a conservation project in darkest Africa...
Nothing is older to man than his struggle for food. From the time the early hunters stalked the mammoths and the first sedentary "farmers" scratched the soil to coax scrawny grain to grow, man has battled hunger. History is replete with his failures. The Bible chronicles one famine after an other; food was in such short supply in ancient Athens that visiting ships had to share their stores with the city; Romans prayed at the threshold of Olympus for food...
...home for London at 21, he had mastered shorthand, made a start on French and begun reading any "masterpiece" whose existence he had discovered. He clerked in London for several years, gradually making his way into the bourgeois musicale-and-reading set in Chelsea. His new friends had to coax him to try writing...